Adobe developers will LOVE this: New Google GSA Developer Edition

Developers who are interested in a great search experience for their internal and public sites can now download the Google Search Appliance virtual edition for developers. The new Google Search Appliance (GSA) virtual edition let's developers "play" with the GSA before they buy.

• This is a software download
• The number of documents crawled and indexed is limited to 50,000
• Developers can test against the features of the Google Search Appliance

More info: http://www.figleaf.com/Services/Google-Search-Appliance-Virtual-Edition-for-Developers.cfm

Adobe Max - 10/30 is final day for hotel reservations

If you plan to go to MAX this year be sure to make your hotel reservations!

Hands-on: Administering ColdFusion 8

http://www.useadobe.com/rsvp.cfm ************************************ NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY, JULY 29 ************************************

EVENING MEETING ONLY - Pizza & Soda will be served! 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Presenter: Steve Drucker Professionally Installing and Securing ColdFusion 8 Servers The first 16 people who arrive for the meeting will participate in a 2+ hour hands-on walkthrough where you will learn how to professionally install a ColdFusion 8 server. Topics covered include the following: * Installing ColdFusion 8 Multiserver Edition * Securing your ColdFusion server in Windows * Creating and managing clustered instances of ColdFusion 8 * Configuring the Java Virtual Machine

Event Location:

CTIA Building / Fig Leaf Software Training Center 1400 16th Street, NW Level B1 Training Room Washington, DC 20036

Directions: http://www.useadobe.com/directions.cfm

Adobe AIR 1.1 Released: http://get.adobe.com/air/

The major change in tis version is support for localized and internationalized applications. The AIR runtime itself now supports multiple languages (Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish), as well as support for building internationalized applications (including keyboard input for double-byte languages). Meanwhile, over in the Labs, there’s an Adobe AIR Update Framework just out: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Adobe_AIR_Update_Framework This beta release of the update framework for Adobe AIR applications provides APIs to help developers offer good update capabilities in their AIR applications.

Adobe User Group Meeting - Tuesday June 17th

EVENING MEETING ONLY - Pizza & Soda will be served! 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Steve Drucker, Certified Adobe Master Instructor Presents TOPIC: ColdFusion AJAX, Adobe Spry, and Google Maps During this 2.5 hour session you will learn how to create CF-based AJAX applications that use Google Maps. We will cover the following subtopics: * Developing Applications with Adobe Spry * Making AJAX calls using Adobe Spry * Working with Spry DataSets * Using ColdFusion 8-specific AJAX functionality () * Developing mapping applications with Google Maps Event Location: CTIA Building Fig Leaf Software Training Center 1400 16th Street, NW Level B1 Training Room Washington, DC 20036 Directions: http://www.useadobe.com/directions.cfm RSVP for this meeting here: http://www.useadobe.com/rsvp.cfm

Acrobat.com launched - What are you waiting for?

Check out the newest creation from Adobe: www.acrobat.com This great new place to collaborate includes Adobe Buzzword for online word processing, Adobe Connect Now for real time screen sharing and collaboration, PDF creation engine, file sharing and even storage! The interface is very friendly and it's easy to get started.

Acrobat Accessibility Course launched by Fig Leaf Software

Click the link for the full course outline and registration dates: http://training.figleaf.com/Courses/Acrobat_Accessibility.cfm

Flex Cookbook Cook-off contest - ENTER TODAY!

This summer, O'Reilly Media announces the Flex Cookbook Cook-Off contest to celebrate the recent publication of "Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers," written by Josh Noble, Todd Anderson, and a selection of authors whose recipes were plucked from the Adobe Flex Cookbook web site. From June 2-August 1 we invite you to submit your best code recipes for the chance to win some great prizes. Four winners will be chosen during the contest period. The prizes include: -Grand prize: A ticket to Adobe MAX in San Francisco, California and $500 (US) in O'Reilly Media books -Community choice award: $350 (US) in O'Reilly Media books -Second prize: Every Adobe Developer Library book published by O'Reilly Media -Third prize: Five O'Reilly Media books of choice Contest runs June 2–August 1, 2008 Winners are to be announced Sept 1, 2008 To submit your entry, go to: http://www.adobe.com/go/flex_cookbook

ColdFusion 8 wins Codie Award

The Software & Information Industry Association has announced the 2008 Codie Awards. Cold Fusion 8 was the winner of the "Best Web Services Solution" catergory. Initial press coverage is here: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/20/Codie-awards-go-to-Red-Hat-Adobe-Salesforce_1.html And the Codie site is here: http://www.siia.net/codies/2008/default.asp

Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth Beta's available on Adobe Labs

There are three new betas now live over at http://labs.adobe.com/: Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth.

Adobe Open Screen Project

http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/

Adobe announces a new version of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200805/050508AdobeConnectPro.html The version includes new functionality that enriches online communication and collaboration, enabling organizations and schools to offer more engaging rapid training, interactive virtual classes and dynamic online meetings.

Adobe Video Workshop

For those interested in diving deep into Adobe products here's a great learning resource: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/

New Adobe RIA Newsletter

If you are doing anything with Rich Internet Applications development using Flex or AIR be sure to check out Adobe's new RIA newsletter. The RIA newsletter includes information related to software updates, new and information: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=rianewsletter

Adobe AIR for Linux

www.adobe.com/go/airlinux Also an update to the alpha version of Adobe Flex(r) Builder(tm) 3 for Linux software is also available on Adobe Labs today at www.adobe.com/go/flexbuilder_linux. Full press release at: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/033108AdobeAIRforLinux.html

Adobe Online Developer Week - 20 Sessons March 24-28

Adobe’s put together some great online sessions covering many of their products – check out the site and see if there is anything you’d like to learn: http://adobe.com/go/2008_developer_week Adobe provides end-to-end web development tool suites and solutions. Join online to see what the buzz is all about in this one week long event with 20 sessions covering AIR, Flex, Flash, Mobile, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver technologies.

ColdFusion, FLEX 3, AIR Conference - Early Bird Discounts

Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount for the Webmaniacs Conference May 19-23rd. The discount for early bird registration is extended until March 14th so register today: http://www.webmaniacsconference.com/ Ben Forta will be the key note speaker as will someone from Jeremy Allaire's company, Brightcove. You can choose from 2 days of ColdFusion, 3 days of Flex or all 5 days. AIR is covered every day.

Promoting Your Flex Applications

The article talks about the ways that Adobe helps Flex developers promote their applications - things like the Flex Showcase (http://www.flex.org/showcase/), the Adobe Site of the Day and Customer Success Program (http://www.adobe.com/go/showcase), and Flex team member blogs, including www.riapedia.com. You can read the blog entry at http://weblogs.macromedia.com/flexteam/archives/2008/02/how_to_promote.cfm The Flex Showcase is the most popular page on Flex.org - in January alone this site received over 70,000 visits. Any application that is submitted to the Flex Showcase will be accepted - as long as it's built with Flex. Visit http://flex.org/showcase/ to see the applications and to submit your own. People who want to stay up to date with the Showcase can subscribe to the RSS feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/flexshowcase

Flex Behind the Scenes Video

Check out this fun look at Flex: Behind the Scenes. Matt Chotin put this together and though it is long (17 minutes) it is very enjoyable. http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mchotin/archives/2008/02/flex_behind_the.cfm

Flex Builder 3 Pro Free for Education Customers

http://www.flexregistration.com/

Yahoo! Maps API in ActionScript 3.0

The new Yahoo! Maps API is now entirely built in ActionScript 3.0. The Maps API now gives you an incredibly powerful map engine and the ability to create custom components, overlays and markers while consuming different webservices provided by Yahoo!, or your own. The YahooMap component is distributed as a SWC, to get started you need to include it into your build path using Flex Builder. http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/

eBay contest now for Flex developers too!

This looks like a great contest - and there are 5 prizes of $10K up for grabs. Please note that entries are due by February 22nd, 2008. Ebay has changed the rules for the eBay Widget contest - entries can now be up to 400 kb and include open source code. People may recall that eBay originally banned open source components and had a limit of 200 kb on the size of the widget - making it nearly impossible for Flex developers to get involved. http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/01/29/ebay-widget-contest-rules-change-f or-flex-developers

Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour (www.useadobe.com)

Flex and AIR User Group Pre-release Tour Flex 3 and AIR are getting close to launch and in preparation, the Adobe Platform Evangelist team is traveling to select cities to show off the great new features and some brand new demos. Washington, DC is the first city in the tour! Visit http://www.useadobe.com to RSVP January 21st 1400 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast & Networking 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Flex 3 and AIR Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder. Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, extending rich applications to the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write desktop applications using the same skills that you've been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX. Don't miss out on the opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR during this special pre-release tour. Plus, in addition to giving away some one of a kind Flex/AIR branded schwag, we will also be raffling off a copy of Flex Builder 3 Professional (pending availability) and a full commercial copy of CS3 Web Premium at this event! If you can't make the DC event on January 21st then check out the comprehensive listing of dates at flex.org/tour to see if the tour is coming to your city!